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Rebecca Horn
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1944 Born in Michelstadt, Germany
1963 Graduated from the Hamburg Academy for Fine Arts
1971 DAAD-scholarship at Saint Martins College of Art, London
1972–1981 Lived in New York
1989 Began teaching at the Hochschule der Künste, Berlin
Currently lives in Berlin and Paris
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From 1970 Horn documented her work using video and film, establishing a connection between sculpture and action. She increasingly used feathers, for example in masks or constructions that enclose the entire body, closing off the wearer from the environment. The spectator's occasional glimpses through the constructions produce a high level of intimacy. In a completely darkened cabinet, which closes automatically, the spectator is exposed to the voices of two Chinese girls speaking continuously. Concentrating on these pleasant and incomprehensible sounds, the spectator is finally released into the wealth of sense impressions of the bright, lively gallery space.
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| Selected Exhibitions |
| 2006 |
Helga de Alvear – Concepts for A Collection, Exhibition Centre of Centro Cultural de Belém, Brazil
Bodylandscapes, Martin-Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany (solo) |
| 2004-2006 |
Artists See God, The Contemporary Jewish Museum (March 7 – June 7, 2004), Laguna Art Museum (July 31 – October 3, 2004), Institute of Contemporary Arts (November 19 – January 9, 2005), Contemporary Art Center of Virginia (June 9 – September 4, 2005), Albright College Freedman Art Gallery (September 29 – January 8,2006), Cheekwood Museum of Art (February 4 – April 16, 2006) |
| 2005 |
Bodylandscapes, Galerie de France, Paris, France; Hayward Gallery, London, UK; Art/36/Basel, Basel, Switzerland; Fundação Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
Moon Mirror, St. Paul's Cathedral, London, UK (solo)
Rebecca Horn, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany (solo)
Rebecca Horn: Time Goes By, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand (solo)
Twilight Transit, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York (solo) |
| 2004 |
Bodylandscapes, K20 Kunstsammlung, Düsseldorf, Germany (solo)
Light imprisoned in the belly of the whale, Es Baluard, Palma, Mallorca (solo)
Moon Mirror, St. Johannes-Evangelist-Kirche, Berlin, Germany (solo)
The Artist's Body. Then and Now, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Genève, Switzerland
Miradas Y Conceptos En La Collección Helga de Alvear, Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo (MEIAC), Badajoz, Spain.
Ordering the Ordinary, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK
Videographies – The Early Decades from the EMST collection, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
Walking and Falling, Magasin 3, Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden (February 11 – Maj 28, 2006)
ZOO STORY: An exhibition of animals in art – for the young and the young at heart, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, NY |
| 2003-2004 |
Rebecca Horn, Galleria Trisorio, Naples, Italy (solo) |
| 2003 |
From Broodthaers to Horn, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands |
| 2002 |
Die Neue Kunsthalle, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany |
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